Sprint makes child location affordable
Rating: Halves cost of service to $5 per month
Sprint Nextel has decided to go big on its child location service which it calls Sprint Family Locator. Developed by WaveMarket for Sprint, it claims to be the industry’s first family location service that enables families to locate offspring using GPS technology.
Parents can use any web-enabled Sprint phone or a computer to take advantage of the service and more than 100 Sprint phone models can be located, including all currently available Sprint phones.
In addition to lowering the price from $10 to $5 per month so more families can use Sprint Family Locator, Sprint also has recently upgraded the service with the following enhanced features not available with competitors’ services. Or so it claims!
Custom Child Photo Upload - Customers can personalise their Sprint Family Locator experience by uploading photos of their family members. The uploaded photos are displayed next to each of the customer’s locatable family members and on the map when the customer locates a family member. To upload a photo, users should log into their Sprint Family Locator account, click on ‘My Family’ and then click ‘Change Photo’.
Bird’s Eye Map View - Sprint Family Locator now includes improved maps. Bird’s Eye View allows the user to have a 3-D map view from four different angles when using the service on a computer. Customers can zoom in on buildings and locations to get more information about their family’s location and use the improved map controls to rotate the view. Customers can use this new tool by clicking on ‘Bird’s Eye’ at the top of the map.
Pushpin Places - Customers no longer have to type an address to add a Favourite Place to their map. For example, if a building on a school campus is actually very far from the street address of the school, the customer can add a Favourite Place exactly where it is - not where the address translates to on the map. To use Pushpin Places, customers just right-click on the map while using Sprint Family Locator on a computer and select ‘Add Place Here’. Because Favourite Places can now be situated on the map more precisely, customers can get more accurate Safety Check results.
Improved Safety Checks - Safety Checks allow users to set a day and time to automatically check whether a family member is near a certain landmark, such as school, home or a relative’s house, without logging in. This provides ‘hands-off’ peace of mind. Now customers have the option to be notified every time or only if the family member is not where they are supposed to be. To use, customers should sign into their Sprint Family Locator account and click on ‘Safety Checks’.
Improved Location History - Now customers can see their location history side-by-side next to their map when using Sprint Family Locator on a computer. Customers can also select any location from the history to see its position on the map, including the accuracy circle, rather than just an address.
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